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In June 2017, Mark Zuckerberg rewrote Facebook’s mission statement to better reflect its current priorities. In the future, he said, Facebook would have a strong focus on groups. Once you’ve reached most of the adult population of earth, it turns out that they would rather all not gather in the same virtual room. And so Facebook has set about promoting the creation … [Read more...] about How the fight over vaccines is fueled by web forums

Amazon Web Services has been certified to store and process federal government data classified as Protected, across 42 of its cloud services.AWS announced it had received the nod from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to handle Protected data in its Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region data centres.Compute, storage, network, database, security, analytics, application … [Read more...] about AWS gets government go-ahead to handle classified data

Over the past year and a half the dialogue around privacy, and the social implications of violations of privacy, has shifted significantly, according to Trevor Hughes. Partly that shift has been driven by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, said Hughes, who is the president and chief executive officer of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). However, … [Read more...] about GDPR helps drive growth in privacy tech

Amazon Web Services has, for the first time, hinted at its interest in offering quantum computing to customers.The indication was given in a blog post praising the US Senate for passing the National Quantum Initiative Act, a unified national strategy for researching quantum information science. “At AWS, we are motivated by what quantum technologies can do for our … [Read more...] about Amazon Web Services hints at quantum computing future

Ensuring machine learning models are ethical and unbiased is hard. In October it emerged Amazon.com had scrapped a four year project to automate its recruitment process. The company, according to a Reuters report, found the system was not rating candidates for developer and technical roles in a gender-neutral way. The issue is that methods to make machine learning models fairer … [Read more...] about New institute wants ‘world where systems behave ethically’